Right, I’m back up to schedule and it’s been a good week this week. Definitely feels less intensive than Class 1 so far – although I did have a very late night on Thursday. Not for any good reason, I just did :)
Anyway, I had loads off great feedback this week – after what I would consider to be a rather slow first week, people seem to be warming up to their new classes a little more and are getting into some in-depth critiquing. Which is really great! I had the art of critiquing drummed into me whilst I was at the NCCA so I know how important it is to leave constructive feedback. Enough with the jibba-jabba. Here’s my blocking:
One of my main criticisms from Shaun this week was that there was a bit too much detail for a blocking phase. This is quite a hard thing to judge, but I guess I will pick it up eventually. There were also a few poses that didn’t read as well as they could have and I have to look at taking some of the floatier movement out. The acceleration up and down needs accentuating whilst slightly extending the hang time of the main jump. I also need to add some body overlap to the small settle bounces at the end (how the hell did I miss that? The body rotation is completely flat!).
So, not a bad week but it would seem that I did miss the point a little. OH well, I will have a revised block up soon and then I’ll have to take it to ‘blocking plus’, which is perhaps even more vague! Somewhere between leaving stepped mode and doing final polish! Argh! I imagine there will be plenty of questions queued up at the Q&A tomorrow! :D